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Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:38:49 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Neal wrote:
   I guess I am just an old dog stuck using that with which I’ve always known: LEGO. Even if another company were in fact able to do a better job than TLG, I doubt that I would convert.

I guess here’s the rub:

To turn it around for a minute, suppose that MegaBloks had come out first, and produced poor quality bricks. Then, when their patent ran out, LEGO decided to make awesome bricks that matched the MegaBloks standard, simply because MegaBloks at the time of LEGO’s inception happened to be the market leader. Should LEGO have been forced to pick a different scale so that they didn’t conflict with the MegaBlok iconic image?

   Yeah, yeah: capitalism. Though I would say that it is amoral rather than immoral.

True. Capitalism itself is amoral, while its practitioners can be immoral.

DaveE



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  Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
 
(...) If TLG produced better quality bricks, I wouldn't see the advantage of making them compatible with a competitor's inferior product. (...) Yes they can. JOHN (15 years ago, 20-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
  Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
 
(...) Here's a better question. If that had been the case, would anyone have even had the desire to attempt to clone MB at all? There are several different construction toy systems out there, and so far the only one I've really seen any non-bootleg (...) (15 years ago, 22-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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  Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
 
(...) Agreed. (...) I guess I am just an old dog stuck using that with which I've always known: LEGO. Even if another company were in fact able to do a better job than TLG, I doubt that I would convert. Yeah, yeah: capitalism. Though I would say (...) (15 years ago, 19-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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